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Poll: Which Arsenal star deserves to lead our attack

Our team is nearly complete, although voting remains open for each of the positions, but we still need to choose which Arsenal forward should be leading the line.

Lucas Perez arrived to bring competition to the role this summer in a £17 Million deal, and arrives with an impressive record from his previous season with Deportivo La Coruna, but he may take time to adjust to life in England.

Olivier Giroud has been our first-choice for the past few years, but his tally per season has him way below our rivals main strikers. The Frenchman has proven to be great when in form, but he hasn’t quite found the consistency to earn a ‘World Class’ tag, and there is definitely room for improvement.

Alexis Sanchez has been fielded as a makeshift striker on a few occasions this year, but hasn’t scored whilst operating in the role. It is worth noting he bagged his goal against PSG AFTER Giroud was brought on, and he returned to his usual role.

Theo Walcott and Danny Welbeck have similar profiles, with the pair missing large chunks of their career in North-London through injury, as well as both being used as wingers as well as as a striker. The former has been overlooked to play centrally this term, but Danny was highly impressive when returning from his injury last season, and if he can pick up where he left off when he is back in December, he will have defences running scared.

15 thoughts on “Poll: Which Arsenal star deserves to lead our attack”

Didn’t Sanchez score twice today as a striker? Anyways until we can see more of Perez, Giroud has to start up front as we are a lot more balanced overall as a team. I recon Perez will start on Tuesday so that we will hopefully be able to see what he’s got.

I voted Danny Welbeck. He might not be the most prolific striker out there though, but he’s the hardest working player we have. He’s a very good header of the ball as well, strong, pacy and excellent ball retention. I’m surprised people are voting Perez. What’s their vote based on exactly? Actually, I’m beginning to get worried about him :/

Wenger converted Henry and RVP from wingers to strikers and I think he’s trynna do the same with Alexis and I am fully behind him on that as it gives us more striking options in the long run, we will eventually have a fast and mobile striker in Sanchez and a target man in Giroud, we can switch our style based on the opposition. Sanchez might be more effective on the wings but we do know he brings unquestionable quality to the team Im sure no one would be surprised if he scored 30+ goals a season, he’s currently on 5 goals in the last 5 games. Perez might need a bit of time to come good. In fact, that Alexis is struggling in the middle is further proof of why Giroud needs more time on the bench, it shows how much our game has become a very one dimensional and static one that even Aguero might struggle with. Girouds size means he can win lots of duels in the box but lacks the trickery and mobility to do much more hence why even a Walcott would prove a handful for Terry or Kompany but Giroud stands almost no chance as they can read his every move even if he beat them to an incoming ball. In the meanwhile, I’d start Alexis upfront and if we still need to score after an hour, I’ll bring in Giroud and switch Alexis to the wings like against PSG.

Acpom who scored three goals for hull in 1800 minutes of play in the championship last season is above walcott. Then we have sanogo above acpom and walcott, my recollection is that sanogo did well in an emirates cup game and as a substitute in an FA Cup game years ago. Theo so far this season has two goals and one assist in the PL.

I can understand the frustration us fans feel about walcott but to put acpom and sanogo above him in the striker roll is ridiculous.

I think he will always frustrate many Gooners but as long as he puts in a shift like yesterday I’ve got no complaints. He looked sharp and tracked back. There were far more pluses than negatives yesterday. I think he’s on track for a big season

Who knows we have a manager who favored Nicolas bendtner over carols vela … The sad truth is that however you shuffle this particular deck of cards it can’t take us to the next level so it’s all about another season of whether wenger can guarantee 4th place again …. Sad